Jay Westerdal Posts About IDN's

[jose]

...the hard way:

Have you every wanted to check if a domain was available for a common word for phrase in a different language. Asking us how to do a whois lookup on an IDN domain name is actually a common question in our support ticket system. So I thought I would let the world know how to do it. Perhaps you want to look at the whois record for “world map” in Korean. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how to do it.

1. Head over to Google Translate.
2. Enter in your words, such as “world map”.
3. Select the language you want to translate into. Example: “English to Korean”
4. If your results look like, “????”, then you need to install a language pack for your operating system. On WindowsXP it is really easy, just follow these instructions for the Microsoft Language Packs on Microsoft’s website. You can enable this from your control panel in a few minutes.
5. Once you have the translated words and it will look like a foreign language and it can be copied and pasted it into domaintools search box. Then the last step is to append “.com” to it. Then hit search and it will auto-translate it into the IDN script.

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/...an-idn-domain/

Conclusion: 100% misleading title, he is finding free IDN domains using Google translator

[zenmarketing]

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/...an-idn-domain/

[Olney]

Good post it creates awareness & it shows progress that mainstream domainers are interested in the same things that this site wrote about 2 years ago.

[Olney]

Threads merged since they are the same

[jacksonm]

With newer versions of linux, there is unicode support in the terminal and IDN support in network information tools.

For example, you can open a terminal and give this command just by pasting the unicode word / domain name into the terminal:


whois ハート.com


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[domainguru]

Jay's post is very interesting, in that:

a) He is regging IDNs
b) He doesn't seem to have a clue how to do it ...

Its like going back in time to before IDNF existed and we all had weird and wonderful ways to attempt to locate and register IDNs.

Love the guy that commented:

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Wait a tick,
It’s possible to register international characters? …
I wonder if this requires any special DNS server configuration(s).
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I wonder if this level of ignorance is still prevalent amongst the ASCII population.

[Rubber Duck]

Perhaps we have located our Bot. :p

[bwhhisc]

Hey Genius, I gave you IDNeBook a shameless plug on his blog.

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Hey Genius, I gave you IDNeBook a shameless plug on his blog.

Come on, Bill, I'm still in growth mode.

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[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Come on, Bill, I'm still in growth mode.

Ya should have bought a few lists. :p LOL
Genius doesn't want the word out but he sells the keys to the treasure chest.

[markits]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Come on, Bill, I'm still in growth mode.

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LOL

Greedy MJ..

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Come on, Bill, I'm still in growth mode.

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I would set yourself a deadline of Saturday.

There is a lot of buzz out there at the moment. If we make decent sales on Saturday that could quickly turn to hysteria!

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Ya should have bought a few lists. :p LOL

Heh, I'm only after big game. I don't have enough patience to shoot a thousand squirrels. I admire those of you who do, though.

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Genius doesn't want the word out but he sells the keys to the treasure chest.

Yeah, that is ironic isn't it?


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[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Heh, I'm only after big game. I don't have enough patience to shoot a thousand squirrels. I admire those of you who do, though.

Yeah, I was unduly influenced by the dynamite fishing king. Patience is not something we have much of either.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Yeah, I was unduly influenced by the dynamite fishing king. Patience is not something we have much of either.

Alpha only turned up with Dynamite because the Loading Shovel tactic wasn't working any :p more!

[jose]

ALERT: DON'T use the http://whois.domaintools.com/IDN.tld too much:

You're adding names to the polemic Registrant Search Database

"Your Name" owns about xxx other domains New!

[mulligan]

Originally Posted by jose

ALERT: DON'T use the http://whois.domaintools.com/IDN.tld too much:

You're adding names to the polemic Registrant Search Database

"Your Name" owns about xxx other domains New!

This page doesn't load anymore ...

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Hey Genius, I gave you IDNeBook a shameless plug on his blog.

Thanks bill , its time to make that X 10 mark up on the book :p

The tutorial was made initially to get people interested in IDN's and Lure them to this forum. I like to price the keys to the treasure chest very high so with that said the idnebook maybe going from 50 to 250 or maybe 500 haven't decided yet. Hell i might even take it down and put up page that reads "We Want No More Competition" LOL

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by thegenius1

Thanks bill , its time to make that X 10 mark up on the book. The tutorial was made initially to get people interested in IDN's and Lure them to this forum. I like to price the keys to the treasure chest very high so with that said the idnebook maybe going from 50 to 250 or maybe 500 haven't decided yet. Hell i might even take it down and put up page that reads "We Want No More Competition" LOL

As long as I get my 50% referral cut thats fine with me!
In fact, you can apply it towards my copy of the Genius' IDN Instant Website 101 tutorial.

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

As long as I get my 50% referral cut thats fine with me!
In fact, you can apply it towards my copy of the Genius' IDN Instant Website 101 tutorial.

LOL , i think that tut will stay underground :p